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0. H. SHAW. SATGHBL OR OTHER REGEPTAGLE.

No.- 480,675. Patented Aug.- 9, 1892.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. SI IAIV, OF BROOKLYN, ASSIGNOR TO ROBERT H. THOMPSON, OF NEW YORK, AND HENRY D. NORRIS, OF BROOKLYN, NEIV YORK.

SATCHEL OR OTHER RECEPTACLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 480,675, dated August 9, 1892.

Application filed January 5, 1892.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES H.-SHAW, of Brooklyn, Kings county, and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Satchels or other Receptacles, of which the following is a specification.

My improvement relates particularly to satchels, but is also applicable to various other receptacles.

It consists in the combination, with a satchel provided with an opening, of a timepiece arranged so that its time-indicating devices may be seen through the receptacle without opening the latter.

The improvement also consists in other features, which will be hereinafter fully explained.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an end view of a satchel embodying my improvement. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section of the satchel, taken at the plane of the dotted line at 00, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a section lengthwise of the satchel, taken at the plane of the dotted line y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a transverse section taken immediately in rear of the time piece, as indicated by the line 2 2, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a view like Fig. 4, but illustrating a modification. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section similar to Fig. 2, but illustrating the modification which Fig. 5 illustrates.

Similar letters of reference designate corresponding parts in all the figures.

A designates the satchel. It may be of ordinary materials and construction. An opening a is provided in it for the purpose of enabling the time-indicating devices of a timepiece B, located inside of the satchel, to be seen without opening the satchel. As here shown, this opening is located in one end of the satchel. lVhile this location is advantageous, it is not essential. The openinga may be closed by a piece of glass 0 or other material. Outside the satchel I have arranged a dial D, which is shown as made in the form of a ring encircling the opening a. This dial may advantageously be made of metal. As will be seen from Fig. 1, it is marked with the figures from 1 to 12, inclusive, like the dial of an ordinary timepiece. I may advantageously use a ring E inside the satchel, and

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this may be made of metal. The dial-ring D and the ring E may be fastened to each other through the material of which the satchel is formed. For instance, one of the rings may be providedwith prongs,which extend through the material forming the satchel and also through the other ring and are clinched or bent behind the latter.

The timepiece B may be of any desired kind. As here shown it consists of a diminutive clock, which is complete in itself.

The satchel is provided with a holder F, whereby the timepiece may be fastened and held in place. This holder may, as illustrated in Figs. 1 to 4, inclusive, consist of strips of metal fastened to the satchel near where the opening a is located-as, for instance, by being formed integral with or attached to the ring E.

In the illustration of my improvement under consideration a holder F, consisting of resilient strips of metal bent into arc shape, is used. The strips of metal constituting this holder are open at the top, and the clock may be slipped between them and drawn out at pleasure.

In the illustration of my improvement afforded by Figs. 5 and 6 is a holder F, consisting of arc-shaped strips, which may be supported in accordance with the description already given in regard to the holder F, and differing from the strips constituting the holder F by reason of being bent transversely into troughshape, so as to embrace an annular flange or projection 12, withwhich the front end of the timepiece B is provided.

It will be seen that by my improvement I provide in a very simple manner for securing a timepiece in a satchel or like receptacle in such manner that the time may be ascertained without opening the satchel, and that I also afford opportunity for removing the timepiece When using the satchel in the ordinary manner.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A satchel or similar receptacle having an opening and a holder arranged adjacent said opening for supporting a timepiece, substantially as specified.

2. The combinat' n, with a satchel or simipiece having its hands disclosed through said opening, the said satchel or similar receptacle having a space in the rear of and surround- :5

ing said timepiece, adapted for the reception of wearing-apparel, substantially as specified. In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHAS. H. SHAW. Witnesses:

ANTHONY GREF, WILLIAM M. ILIFF. 

